Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners (Unexpected Atlases)

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Hidden lairs beneath layers of rock, forgotten cities rising out of deserted lands and even mankind’s own feats of engineering eccentricity lie in the most unusual of destinations.

If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough. As I read this book, I was googling the locations and interesting many would appear as the first possible match after only 2 or 3 letters.The author doesn’t claim to have visited these places, so it’s not like it’s a travel guide; the term atlas has been chosen deliberately.

His Atlas of Vanishing Placeswon theIllustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards in 2020, and he has also written The Bus We Loved,a passionate love letter to the Routemaster bus which defined London transport for more than 50 years.

I expect to want to do a little more digging on my own when I read a book like this, but I don't expect to have to do that digging for each and every entry, just for the ones that really piqued my curiosity. I wished that at least the book had more pictures and that they were in color, and not just black and white. Each spot is accompanied by a text of two to four pages explaining what makes the place outstanding.

I liked that places from all over the world were included, not just far away countries that I will likely never visit. In a time when exploring the world is something to look forward to but due to pandemic restrictions not easily doable, travel books are a great way to discover new places and stir up anticipation for the time after.This atlas is perfect for those who are curious, or for those who want to travel and see sights that are not listed in most travel guides. Don’t expect a lot of detail about most places; this is a taster, not a through investigation of most places. The author offers a great variety, from formerly closed soviet cities and other deserted military places over utopian places like Christania and villages abandoned after wars or other incidents to modern creations like the artificial island “The Palm” and underground ways which were never meant to be discovered. As the Island of Dolls and the hauntingly titled Door to Hell – an inextinguishable fire pit – attest, mystery is never far away.